As the global push for sustainable biofuels intensifies, lignocellulosic biomass has emerged as a prime candidate for biofuels and biochemicals owing to its abundance and renewability. This biomass, ...

There are mostly benign species in the soil-borne, plant-associated genus of bacteria known as Rhodococcus, but a few species can be pathogenic. Researchers used genome sequencing to identify species ...

A new quinoline antibiotic, aurachin RE, was isolated and identified from a culture broth of Rhodococcus erythropolis JCM 6824. The aurachin RE structure was determined based on NMR and mass ...

The bacterium Rhodococcus ruber eats and actually digests plastic. The bacterium Rhodococcus ruber eats and actually digests plastic. This has been shown in laboratory experiments by PhD student ...

Kazuhiko Kurosawa was running out of variables. For eight months he had made hundreds of cultures of Rhodococcus fascians - manipulating pH, temperature, salt concentration, media type, oxygen levels, ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - It's the "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" in a nursery setting. There are mostly benign species in the soil-borne, plant-associated genus of bacteria known as Rhodococcus, ...